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System and method for finding and prioritizing content based on user specific interest profiles

  • US 10,133,812 B2
  • Filed: 12/05/2013
  • Issued: 11/20/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A personalized content delivery computer system for providing a targeted audience comprising one or more users with content likely to be of interest to the targeted audience, the computer system comprising:

  • at least one computing device comprising a processor and a network interface, the at least one computing device configured to;

    intelligently collect, by a tracking utility, content interest parameters for the targeted audience from a plurality of online sources via the network interface, the intelligent collecting including extracting user interests and keywords relevant to content interest from one or more target entities associated with the targeted audience, the one or more target entities including at least one of an external profile of the targeted audience, articles, and documents, andconstruct, by a content interest profile builder, a content interest profile for the targeted audience that includes a plurality of topics that the targeted audience is substantially likely to have a significant interest in, based on the extracted user interests and keywords;

    analyze, by a semantic engine, the extracted user interests and key-words; and

    synthesize, based on the extracted user interests and key-words, an additional key-word and/or an additional user interest;

    modify, by the content interest profile builder, the content interest profile for the targeted audience to include the synthesized additional keyword and/or additional user interest;

    responsive to a request to target the targeted audience with content likely to be of significant interest to the targeted audience, select a subset of content items from a candidate entity collection including content items within an information domain that is relevant to the targeted audience based on the content interest profile, the subset of content items being more likely to be of significant interest to the targeted audience than other content items in the candidate entity collection omitted from the subset of content items;

    generate a communication template personalized to at least one user in the targeted audience based on the content interest profile, wherein the communication template is personalized with respect to one or more of content format, a nature of relationship to the at least one user, tone, and computing device type of the at least one user;

    send, via the network interface, a communication to a computing device of the at least one user in the targeted audience using the personalized communication template, the communication containing the subset of content items and the communication being configured to be presented on the computing device of the at least one user in a manner personalized to the at least one user and the computing device of the at least one user.

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